Kettlewell is a village in Upper Wharfedale, North Yorkshire. The original church was entirely rebuilt in the early 19th century: faculty papers in the Borthwick Institute, dated June 1819, state that the church is 'now rebuilding entirely new'. The W tower of c. 1820 survives from this building, the rest of which was again rebuilt between 1882-5. This was done by T H and F Healey, in a late Gothic style (see bibliography for details). Romanesque sculpture survives on the only original interior feature, the font.

Late in the twelfth century, a donation of land in Kettlewell was made to Swainby (later Coverham) Abbey, and early in the thirteenth century, a moiety of the church belonged to Coverham (VCH III, 243).

Pevsner 1967, 283, and Leach and Pevsner 2009, 364, give the font a 13th-century date, on the basis of the leaf ornaments being classed as 'stiff leaf'. The form of the font and the other ornaments, though, are a century older, and the muzzled beast is comparable to one on a tomb-cover of pre-Conquest date at Burnsall. The font is likely to be early twelfth-century in date.